When your crush is the ship's mechanic (and resident slut) and you have to knock on his door in the middle of the night because the heat broke... but also you're awkward and inexperienced as hell, and it turns out the resident slut also just likes cuddling his friends. And yet it all works out.
(original characters, main cast here!)
I started this in Procreate just to try it out and found that I really didn't like it, so I switched back to Clip Studio on my computer, so that's why there are some line quality differences in the first few pages. I just like using my old school wacom tablet!
something a bit out of the ordinary from me (color! character art!) but it's @radishforest's birthday today & we've been collaborating on this particular story for almost 13 years now, with a lot of recent progress that's been very exciting - much more over on their art blog.
this is Laszlo, who is actually one of my oldest original characters (circa 2003), but he got an extensive collaborative makeover in 2013-2014 & now he's very much Laurel's as well. he's smoking a "ghost pipe" flower, monotropa uniflora.
OCs from a now-quite-old back burner project... but they are still extremely beloved!! If you've been following me for a long time, you may remember them. Laszlo, June, Calla, Ode, and Toby. Missing another main character because I never got around to it, ah well.
Kicking off my new art blog with OC ref sheets! These are @sheydgarden's and my beloved collaborative characters/story going back to 2013 (??!??!) (and June and Laszlo, in slightly different iterations, are their characters from way longer ago even - like 2003ish?). We've never given this project a proper title, so we've spent this whole time calling it... Space Queers...
They all live on a stolen spaceship. There's trouble with ghosts. They just want to get enough money to buy some instant ramen but life has other plans.
This is... slightly less than 3/4 of a little comic I did last year, because I'm very silly and two out of three of the comics I drew last year I can't post, at least not in their entirety (the rest of this one is adult. As I'm sure you could tell. The other I can't post at all because gives away some character stuff that I want to keep secret). Planning to color this at some point.
(Drawn by me, scripted by my co-conspirator @sheydgarden. Neither of us speak Russian, apologies for any mistakes there. Original characters, more info here!)
Some character/world context for anyone who's curious:
This takes place on their ship, the Lilit. Yevgeny is the ship's medic, as much as he's able to be, anyway. He's not a doctor, he just has some field medicine training from his time in the army. Yeah, his stitching technique is unorthodox, that's on purpose. Don't worry, he autoclaves the thimble. He's claimed the recovery/observation room off of the sick bay as his bedroom, because he found the bunks in the regular crew rooms to be too cramped.
Laszlo was out at some bar on a space station (probably their ship is docked there?). There are a fair number of seedy space stations where anything goes. And Laszlo is... impulsive and has a bit of a drinking problem. Does he ever win bar fights? Absolutely not. Does this stop him? No. Boy's got a self-destructive streak.
I also wanted to get a couple of lovely antagonists in on the day... presenting Darcy Crane and her bodyguard Helka Immonen, and Pearl the ferret, bane of Helka's life:
Been treating myself to drawing OCs in between other stuff I've had to do. I'm not planning on doing age sheets for everyone, but I really wanted to do them for June and Laszlo, as well as put those two drawings of them aged 24 and 30 into an illustration together. And then the last piece is teenaged Laszlo with someone who was very important to him.
